Picture of Joey and Petrina from the internet - during the shooting of Joey's MV "飄紅"
I still recalled my last encounter with HK veteran actress and former child star, Petrina Fung Bo Bo, was at Sunway Pyramid KL eons ago. Then, she was shopping with her second hubby (a Malaysian), along with other family members. I whipped out a card I found in my wallet and asked for her autograph. Now Petrina has officially ended her second marriage and relocated to Penang for good. It also marks her comeback to the HK e-scene (obviously, shuttling between Penang island and HK). Her first silver screen starring role after a hiatus of 21 years is a touching Clifton Ko movie called "Wonder Mama" (which was inspired by a true event that happened to Clifton's relatives). The assistant director is none other than Petrina's son. Bo Bo Jie divulged in earlier interviews that she had contemplated suicide and suffered from depression for 18 years but has since, recovered after embracing Christianity two years back. I'm quite shocked by her revelation. I thought she was enjoying a blissful lifestyle in Malaysia. Just a couple of months ago, I saw Petrina in my idol's (Joey Yung) new mv entitled - "Biu Hung", in which she reenacted her character from the HK comedy classic - " 92 Legendary La Rose Noire". Petrina has bagged two supporting actress awards and acted in countless tv series (both in ATV and TVB). She has certainly not lost her acting chops in Clifton's movie (supported by Babyjohn Choi, Tse Kwan Ho, Kenneth Tsang and Susan Shaw). Having resided in Malaysia for close to two decades, Petrina can now speak a little Hokkien. During the movie premiere in Malaysia, Petrina even offered to entertain the audience with an oldie Mandarin number. Some lucky members of the audience also got hold of her limited edition "Wonder Mama" card. "Wonder Mama" is well scripted (the plot for this movie was conceptualized four years earlier but Petrina did not accept okay when she was offered the role initially) and best enjoyed with your parents/elderly family members. It hits the local cinema circuits on Thursday, 18 June.
Synopsis from "http://thepoppingpost.com/"
Starring Petrina Fung, Susan Shaw (邵音音), Kenneth Tsang (曾江), Babyjohn Choi (蔡瀚亿) and Tse Kwan Ho (谢君豪), Wonder Mama sees Fung play the role of Ah-Oi, a 49-year-old librarian who is also a single mum. Ah-Oi desperately tries to keep her dysfunctional family together when they find out that her teenage maid has been impregnated by her 70-year-old father – with the affair having happened right under her shrewish mother’s nose, no less. A scene ensues and Ah-Oi is torn between her parents’ divorce. Her role as daughter takes on double duty when she realises that the pressure of raising her baby stepbrother will fall to her, even as she questions her own ineptitude at mothering her 30-year-old unemployed son.
